As other people have already pointed out, yes, we’re allowed to have them:
I’m not sure why you’re even asking that. Funcom never wrote anything about that. I was the one who mentioned functional builds and public map rooms, and I never made it sound like a public map room isn’t functional. On the contrary, public map rooms were my example of functional builds, as opposed to strictly decorative (like a tavern, or a lighthouse, or a ship).
Again, where are you even getting these ideas?
This has been explained ad nauseam. We might not like their explanation, but they gave it, so why keep asking the question? Are we going to pretend we didn’t hear them every time we don’t like what they have to say?
If you disagree with Funcom, feel free to say it, but asking the same question over and over because you dislike the answer is disingenuous.
If you’ve really read everything all of us asked about these rules for the past 12 months, and not a single thing you read made any sense at all, then that’s really your problem.
I’ve seen many reasonable questions from reasonable people, well-thought-out and worded properly, addressing real concerns, and posted in good faith. And guess what, they must have made some sense to Funcom, because some of them got answered by Funcom staff.
This kind of non-constructive, overly generalized, and oversimplified criticism of forum participants adds as much noise and toxicity as disingenuous questions, and only helps derail every discussion. As I said in my initial post here, if you don’t have anything to actually add to the discussion of the topic, then why lower the signal-to-noise ratio?
From what I’ve seen so far, it looks like they will take action against anyone violating those terms as long as there’s a report that causes them to do so. 